Preface To Shakespeare

A MIDSUMMER NOON IN THE AUSTRALIAN FOREST

A.L.Grisha

tierce B.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

ST.XAVIERS COLLEGE

PALAYAMKOTTAI

ABSTRACT

There is a poem in every form of tree or flower, but the poesy which lives in the trees and flowers of Australia differs from those of other countries… In Australia alone is to be imbed the Grotesque, the Weird, the strange scribblings of nature learning how to write.
â€" Marcus Clarke (1894)

A Midsummer noonday in the Australian Forest was pen by the graduation exercise great Australian poet Charles Harpur (1813-1868). Harpur is considered one of the best and most fertile of Australias colonial writers. Although criticized at times for his awkward, even clumsy poetical structures, particularly in his landscape narratives, Harpur is recognized by Judith Wright as the first to assert the independence, the special-ness, of the Australian …. Leonie Kramer states that, despite his technical imperfections, Harpur knew what rime is, and how poets learn their craft; he appointed himself good masters, and taught himself what to arrogate and adopt and how to present his individual perceptions, while drawing on the tradition he made his own.



Harpurs best-known poem, Midsummer midday in the Australian Forest, reflects the influence of Wordsworth, but also the independent, imaginative spirit that would characterize most of his works. A.D. Hope has claimed Harpur not as our first great landscape poet, but rather as the countrys first satirist, and places him firmly, with Kendall, in the romantic tradition of Byron and Shelley. A mid-summer noon in the Australian forest by Charles Harpur is a poem about the Australian landscape written in the 19th century. The language of the poem is romantic and he creates a light-hearted and peaceful mood by his use of hoarfrost; this allows his poem to flow dexterously, giving the poem a song-like theatrical role and feel. Harpur expresses his attitude...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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